There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

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.

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.

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Anything we put on screen has gone through massive changes. That's always part of the process.

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'