One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

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

Logic can't explain the salmon swimming upstream. So it denies the existence of salmon.

What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.