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

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.

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?

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.