Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.

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.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

I'm interested in social commentary.

Always look for common ground, but don't ever be afraid to choose sides.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember.