Gray hair is God's graffiti.

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.

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.