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.

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.

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.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

You always supposed to have that i'm number 1 mentality, don't let anyone make you feel like you is number 2 when they not even worth being number 1 !!!

What else is as beautiful as a woman?

Hope is like a dream with plan and purpose.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

I'm so official, all I need is a whistle.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.