Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.