America will be saved! That's what the Holy Spirit told me.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Believers have both the authority to do God's will because of their position in Christ, and the power to do God's will as long as they walk by the Spirit.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.

To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

As King ended his speech, I heard Mahalia Jackson call out, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" And he did begin the "I have a dream" litany from memory, with the crowd calling out to him after each image—Tell it! What would be most remembered had been least planned. I hoped Mrs. Greene heard a woman speak up—and make all the difference.

Between what is and what could be?