I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

The best teacher is very interactive.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I don’t do research. I never have.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.