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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that he instilled in me.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

I'm an idealist.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

I always believed in myself, and even in the bad times, when I'd do bits of greatness here and there, it was those kinds of things that kept me alive and helped me to get to where I am now.