The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutaliy of the bad people.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

When I speak of love, I am speaking of that force which all the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life.

Love is the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose… one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar opposites – so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.

 I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

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

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

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

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

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

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

 At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. 

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear. 

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

I should be suspicious of what I want.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Patience is the key to joy.

Sit, be still, and listen.