Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
We must become the change we want to see.
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.