Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

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?

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have.

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Never stop learning, and always be ready to teach yourself things you don’t know. The only things you will remember are things you care about.

You're either living in the problem or you're living in the solution

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!