“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

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.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Dark comedy helped me survive.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.

You must help those who only remember you while their need because they try to find the brightness while in darkness, and you are that brightness.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Her light is true love, her darkness a seductive mistress.

I try and see a silver lining in everything, A ray of light in the dark, good in the bad.