The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I feared my soul was dying, being replaced by the monster I would become.

Christ Jesus is full of compassion, if we come to Him, He will heal us.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.