My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

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.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

Forgive yourself when you fall down because we all fall down.

Stay in your room

Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something