Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

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.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may ever have to endure, and because he cried out those words we may cry them out, too.

The secret of joy is to give love without seeking it.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I love my iPhone it's great to have a camera around all the time.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.