There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

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.

God has a plan and a predetermined place on earth and in the Kingdom of God for every one of us

The man who reproaches you is unfair

If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

Rest is sweet after strife.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.