Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
