The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

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

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.

The great love was displayed for us at cavalry

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.