These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

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.

Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.

We’re only five years apart, ” I said defiantly. “If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal.

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.

Do you think it would be quite so easy to kill them now that your weapon has been destroyed?' he sneered. 'No,' she said, frowning at him, 'Obviously not.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.