Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

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?

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.