You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

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.

If I listened to all the noise in the worldI would have many standards to conform to But the zeal to succeedCuts through the racket

If you want something more in life, you have to become someone who is capable of getting more

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

He's as old as some trees.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.