Be wary of great leaders.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.