I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

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 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.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

If you want to change the world, first change yourself.

Nostalgia-- that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.