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.

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.

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

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.

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

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.