Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

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.

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.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

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.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.