Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.