Martin Luther King Jr.

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

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

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Every wall is a door.

I heartily accept the motto,That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

The only wealth is life.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of the childrens hour. I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England. Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

The gap that’s opened I’m filling with fairy dust, hues of the heart and a joy for life what was… I invite to exit right quietly, in shades of black and white.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.