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

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.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

There is no gain without struggle.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

A lie cannot live.

We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

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.