Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

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 know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

My job is my own only land.

I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.