The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.

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.

Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.

Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace.

Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.