I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.