The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

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.

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.

There is more for us to gain through love than hate.

A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

Told ya you were special.

I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

I know the prettiest word in the world is ‘money.’ But I believe that words like ‘loyalty’ and ‘patriotism’ are very beautiful as well.