It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

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?

You might not want to fight for the things that others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same. Whatever it is that you want, go after it with all that you have in you.

Just as you can't blindly follow fashion, you can't follow fitness, either.

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

Fraud makes the world go round.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

There was always something missing in Montreal.

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken