I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

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.

Sometimes you need to fight your demons yet, sometimes you just need to embrace them.

We must heal this terminally ill world with love.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.