I will not take "but" for an answer.

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?

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.