Martin Quotes

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy

Every man must do two things alone

Choose to see the 'good' in a person rather than pondering over the 'bad'

Gratitude is not just a word

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on

I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.

It may sound strange, but I get the inspiration for most of my Dreams while I'm sleeping.

There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE".

Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.

Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

In those days food was never just sustenance

No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie

Was he a good father?"To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No, " I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.