When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

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.

At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Not all of me shall die.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

He who is not getting better is getting worse.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

Basically painting is total idiocy.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.