He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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

Your silence will not protect you.

Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.