Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.