Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

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

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.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.