Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

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.

The cure for everything, is not a medicine, but the pure kindness of acompassionate heart.

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.

I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

Being completely in control is a fantasy.

I make very basic country rustic furniture.

No taxation without respiration.