I don't very often read novels.

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.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.