I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

There should be no censorship of mail.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

When life comes to an end, we will take nothing with us.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.