Martin Luther King Jr.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

When you know better you do better.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.