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

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.