Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of things, but there we're all singing together. Gives you hope.

There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.