A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

The time is always right to do the right thing

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.