We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

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.

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

I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

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.