Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

The last moment is past; this moment is present; and, the next moment will be future. The past, present, and future change with every tick of the clock.