I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers.

I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love.