You can't be everything to everyone

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.

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.

Being a white boxer is like being a republican. No matter how hard you work, you'll always lose because of the Mexicans.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.