The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

Farming is a profession of hope

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.