Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

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.

A mind that searches for answers to big questions is a mind that will discover incredible things.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical

I guess the internet and the power of people finding things out for themselves is great.

The only successful manifestation is one which brings about a change or growth in consciousness; that is, it has manifested God, or revealed him more fully as well as having manifested a form.

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.