We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

Seeing is not always believing.

A lie cannot live.

Find a voice in a whisper.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

The time is always right to do what is right.