I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

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.

if you speak things into existence, they will become real.. believe me!

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Why that was the stars, my little ones, ' growled Kar, lifting his proud eyes to the endless heavens. 'For in the beginning, there was light.

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.

The fast-food industry has moved into the grocery store, so you no longer have to go to a fast-food chain to find problematic foods.

VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins.

When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything