I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

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.

Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

The quieter the mind the louder the soul.

I had a feeling that Ben Lancaster had just tattooed himself onto my soul and the thing about tattoos? They were painful to remove.

Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.