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.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

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

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

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