"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience
of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
aspired, and success achieved."
– Helen Keller
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
– Helen Keller
"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."
– Helen Keller
"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles
and all the years you have lived."
– Helen Keller
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched — they must be felt with the heart."
– Helen Keller
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn
to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
– Mary Ellen Kelly
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote, where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
– John F. Kennedy
"What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but
that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause,
but what they say about their opponents."
– Robert F. Kennedy
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed."
– Corita Kent
"Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward."
– Soren Kierkegaard
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
– Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."
– Martin Luther King Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of
dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
– Barbara Kingsolver
"To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to
carry my ideas and values into the world — that I am able to change
it in positive ways."
– Maxine Hong Kingston
"Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I
have no desire to make my own toxins."
– Neil Kinnock
"If you would not volunteer to do the job you have, you are probably doing the wrong job."
– Brian Koslow
"One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would
be said of you at your eulogy."
– Brian Koslow
"You will forgive people more easily when you end your need to make them wrong."
– Brian Koslow
"Television: A medium — so called because it is neither rare nor well done."
– Ernie Kovacs