We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

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.

We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.

Let love be your perfect weapon.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.