There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

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.

Yes, she is.” His eyes remained on Olivia, but she wasn’t aware he was watching her. “With art, I believe anything created with profound heart is captured compulsively beautifully.

It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Desire means never quit.

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.