I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.

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.

you're going to love your way out of this.out of the hurt.out of the pain.you're going to love your way out of it and be free.

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

I have every reason to be happy.

I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.