There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care. You don't have to fix it.

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.