The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

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.

Men don't need linguistic talent

Man without his maker is like root without a tender shoot.

Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.