I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

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.

It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.

Night is the sleep of seven wax mothsDawn is the singing of five mermaidsNoon is the scratching of three field miceDusk is the shadow of a crow

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.