I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.

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.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to be the greatest love story of all time!

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

Follow your heart, but check it with your head.