I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

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.

The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset

Ian cleared his throat. "Lady Elizabeth." He reached behind him and handed her a single red rose. "A rose... for the bonniest lass who ever graced the Highlands.

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.