To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

Any thought that goes against your happiness or progress surely doesn't deserve a space in your mind.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.