One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
Pressure makes diamonds.
I don't measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
I Have a Dream
When God commands, do it!
We shall overcome.
Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.