My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now.

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.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Life can only be understood backwards

All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I don’t wish for more time. I wish for more courage to live freely right now.

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.