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

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

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.

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.

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.