As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.

What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

They say when you meet somebody that looks just like you, you die.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.