I am the me I choose to be..

I defend myself by improving myself..

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man..

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his child….

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 ….

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness..

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were..

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express i….

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

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of l….

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before..

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed..

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure..

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values..

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty..

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment..

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life..

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it..

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections..

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better..

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being..