Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Burn, burn, burn to become the light, to enlighten the whole world.

Dream to dare

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

I drink therefore I am.