Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Beer is made by men, wine by God.
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.
A lie cannot live.
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.