I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

You are learning to be an expert.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.