There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

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.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

See the cat? See the cradle?

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.