It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man,...
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.I have a dream that one day on...
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values....
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. Wh...
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.
Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the t...
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.