I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

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.

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

Impossibility is only a whisper away from reality

If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.

Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.