Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

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.

His eyes meet mine, and for a moment everything seems like it'll be okay. More than okay, actually.

A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.

What is she doing here? I wondered. Hasn't she had enough green-upping?

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?