Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like 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.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Education must be an equal opportunity for all.

Greatness is in every single one of us, but the problem is that most people fail to show theirs to the world.

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.