Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

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

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

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

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

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

I defend myself by improving myself.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

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

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

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

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

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.