One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.

• Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. –Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10, 1964

• Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

• Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

• I submit that 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.

• When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. –letter from Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963

• The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. –”Strength to Love”

• I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

• 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. –”Strength to Love”

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

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Albert Einstein

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones

-Walter Bender

 

There’s a 100% rate of failure for everytime you don’t try.

-Unknown

There is no off postion to the genius switch.

-Unknown

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

— William Morris

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.      — E.F. Schumacker

“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:  Decide what you want. “

-Ben Stein

“Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.”

-Unknown

“It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid. – John Wayne

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

-Thomas Paine