We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. 

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

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

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

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

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

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness.

We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late’.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

This often misunderstood and misinterpreted concept has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man.

This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.