We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

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

Today is elections day and I am stepping out to help write a chapter that will form a part of my unborn children's history exam in the future.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

Fire, fear, foes! Awake!

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

We can only love a person who eats what we eat.

When I was in Russia I found that I thought I was going to give these people that I was interviewing a whole bunch of choice in terms of what they could drink while we were chatting.

I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.