Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

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.

You haven't learned anything until you learn to learn everything.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.