Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea

[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

The path you take is up to you. Make good choices, dream BIG, it is never too late.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.