Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

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

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me

After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

The higher the hair, the closer to god.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.