Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!

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 other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

I live within the world of books.

The critics don't build great cities

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.