It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

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

Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

I feel like a tick on a dog.

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Just like the moon, I'll step aside, and let your sun shine while I follow behind.

The one is none other than the All, the All none other than the One.