“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

“Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.”

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”