Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

You can tell a lot about a person by listening to the way they talk about someone they once loved.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.