"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."

"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."

"It is a enduring truth that the highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable — an essential principle for the reflective life."