I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

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.

We must choose our allegiances carefully, for there is no going back on them.

Life is a sports make it count.

My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

I think it is important to know when to be hard on yourself and when to let things go, but always keep going.

Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.

I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.