A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

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.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

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

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Stop comparing yourself to others and focus on your own improvement.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

Complaints about reality are immature.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.