It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

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.

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

I think it would be great if we got along with Russia because we could fight ISIS together, as an example.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.

Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.