I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

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

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

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'

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.