Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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

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.

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

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.