It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

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.

Wow, ” she said. “Do you realise how wonderful you sound?”“Yes, I do, ” he said with a firm nod. “And I think I’m underappreciated.

May you find the grace of triumph over any situation.

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.