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

Martin Luther King Jr. · From the sermon "Loving Your Enemies", first preached at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery in 1957 and published in his 1963 sermon collection.

I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

Martin Luther King Jr. · From his last presidential address to the SCLC, Atlanta, 16 August 1967; the popular "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear" splices this with a line a few sentences later, "hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love."

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

Martin Luther King Jr. · Founders Day address at Spelman College, Atlanta, 10 April 1960.

You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

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

“I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.”

“If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

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