What's your name again? That's right. I'm so glad you know your name.

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.

In The End We Are Our Choices_nickc

I always go for confident girls!

Heart and mind overcome all.

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.