You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

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.

Be inspire to explore your world.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was

I fell in love with a man, not a Beatle.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.