Bill Cosby

In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

The heart of marriage is memories, and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale skinny people who look half-dead. In a steak house you see robust ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle and it got bigger and bigger.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter it's not like whispering to your friend you've put it on a billboard that the whole world including your own kids someday can see.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

Immortality is a long shot I admit. But somebody has to be first.

When you carry a gun you mean to harm somebody kill somebody.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

When you introduce competition into the public school system most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Every success story has a parent who says 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says when you're acting the fool 'you know, I worry about you sometimes.'

I was put in remedial everything.