“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Find a voice in a whisper.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Sometimes there are people who don’t know how to make action movies – and that situation isn’t a good one.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.