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.

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

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.

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.

For who is pleased with himself.

I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.