If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

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.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.