Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Movements do not start in Washington, they do not start in Congress, they start with people who are dissatisfied with injustice… and we all have to be a part of that.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

I have always thought what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership among other people.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.