I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

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.

Jesus Himself was the first missionary . . .He pledged His followers to be missionaries too!

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!