The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

You can go as far as you want to go.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.

A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"

We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it