All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

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.

We fool ourselvesinto thinkingwe’re strongthen complainthe rest of our livescrippled bythe consequences.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

The Internet is great for things, like finding the answers to things you pretended to know or stalking people.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?