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.

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

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.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Nothing is more effective in engaging your day than a genuine smile when appropriate.

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.