"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live."
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."