Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.