YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

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.

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't.

When two lovers discover a language of their own.

Energy fields define who we are as humans.

The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

Chatterers are a menace.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.