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

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.