Martin Luther King Jr.

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.

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

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

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

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails – aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?… What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.