The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

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.

Generosity brings you respect from people and those who are miser get hatred from people.

True love is durable and hard to find.

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

The deeper message that is resonating with people is that it is possible to build. It is possible to invest in people; it is possible to invest in green infrastructure; it's possible to change.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?