You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you 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.

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.

A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.

All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.

Rain drops are not synchronized yet they create that sound worth listening to.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.