We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

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.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.