[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

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

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.