I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

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.

Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.

After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.

I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars.

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision

To love is to open the window of your heart for all of the beauty of the world to come in and dance with the joy in your soul.

Losing never come easy. First off, preserved the memories.

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.