We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.

No matter what role I play, I have a certain image to maintain. I believe I'm a role model and I take my parts accordingly.

You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history.

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings.

Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Happy endings make me puke.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.