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.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.

I kept thinking of her eyes, the depths of them, the way she looked right into me, and I wasn't afraid of what she'd find.

Love is strange mutual agreement in which qualities of one person gets sopped up by another person...

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

I like Destiny's Child.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.