"It is the intensity of the longing that does all the work."

"All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop."

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."

"Therefore the mind is like the ocean water, the body is like the waves. As there are no waves without water and no water without waves, water and waves are not separate, motion and stillness not different."

"I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free."

"A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free."

"As your walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."

"Life is but a day; a fragile dew-drop on its perilous way from a tree's summit."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched. but are felt in the heart."

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision."

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest workers."

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings."

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

"All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

"Zen is the madman yelling 'If you wanta tell me that the stars are not words, then stop calling them stars!'"

"No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength."

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

"Adversity not only draws people together but also brings forth that beautiful inward friendship, just as the cold winter forms ice-figures on the windowpanes, which the warmth of the sun effaces."

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"When you set yourself from life and death, you should know your ultimate destination. SO when the four elements seperate, where will you go?"

"Learn that backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself."

"What is the straight within the bent?"

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

"The trouble is that you think you have time."

"There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom."

"The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch each other."

"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

"There is an art of listening. To be able to really listen, one should abandon or put aside all prejudices, preformulations and daily activities... But unfortunately most of us listen through a screen of resistance. We are screened with prejudices, whether religious or spiritual, psychological or scientific; or with our daily worries, desires, and fears. And with these for a screen, we listen. Therefore, we listen really to our own noise, to our own sound, not to what is being said. It is extremely difficult to put aside our training, our prejudices, our inclination, our resistance, and reaching beyond the verbal expression, to listen so that we understand instantaneously."

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."