“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.