If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

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.

The worth of your strength cannot be measured in wages.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50, 000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

Oh, one world at a time!

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.