The older we get the less afraid we are.

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.

The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.