I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.