I Live and work by this speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967.“I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life’s blueprint?Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint....Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, “If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”...If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper,sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures,sweep streets like Beethoven composed music,sweep streets like Leontyne Price sang before the Metropolitan Opera.Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say:Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.If you can’t be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley.Be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail.If you can’t be a sun, be a star.For it isn’t by size that you win or fail.Be the best of whatever you are.”Full Speech in the Link Below.