“There is no gain without struggle.”

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.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.

In the end, we are our choices.

You don’t build a business, you build people and then people build the business.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.

I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.

Minds differ still more than faces.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.