A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

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.

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

The search is in the doing.

Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.