The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Sidney Poitier)

Quotes from The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier:

• A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
• Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
• We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
• Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
• The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
• If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
• We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?
• I am what I have become.
• You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were.
• I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.