Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

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.

Allow your joy to exceed anyone else’s negativity.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

The surest way to get a VC interested is to say that you're not interested in taking VC money.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

Authority. The antithesis of science.