Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Know thyself.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Ideas come from everything

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.