In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

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.

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.

I feel all of the archetypes in Silicon Valley probably exist in some other form in other subcultures.