People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

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.

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.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Your mother just carried you literally. The one who really gave you to her is the one who really knows about the main problem you were meant to solve!

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.