I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Now, I say to you today my friends, event though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

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

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.