Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

God’s grace is our greatest need.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

I need to remember to overcome.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.