Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.