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

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.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Life begins now — right now — not tomorrow or the next day or the next. Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want.

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’

My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.