When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

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 inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.