In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

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 profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truthand the next deepest sensual experienceis the sense of justice.

Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.

Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.

The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.