Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.

If you work you will never go hungry.

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

Now, con said grimly, "I go to kill a werewolf and claim my woman." ~Con

Music always just cuts to the core and fills your heart.