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You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.