Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .