It's not easy to define poetry.
It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
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 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.
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 most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.
La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.
I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.
Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.