When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.

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.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I think that initial independence is very important that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.