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.

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.

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.

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.

She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.

[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.