I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

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.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living (...).

O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.