The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

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.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

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

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.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

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.