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

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

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

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

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

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

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