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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.