If I only have a hammer, I treat all problems as though they were a nail. |

Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine, should be. |

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life |

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. |

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. |

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. |

Give a man a mask, and he’ll show you his true face. |

“If there is a God, he will have to beg for my forgiveness.” |

No man ever listened himself out of a job. |

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. |

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. |

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. |

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. |

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. |

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. |

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. |

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. |

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. |

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. |

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. |

Don’t let your want replace your need, because a day will come when you will lose what you need to get what you want. |

My heart aches in corners I did not know existed. |

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. |

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. |