“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”

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.

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.

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.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t.

It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.