There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

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.

May the peace of God be with all people.

He didn’t know what was hotter, her Star Wars reference or the breathiness with which she spoke it.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.