I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

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.

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.