“I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.”

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

If I could choose how to die, I would drown in your eyes.

I saved a spider from death. Stuck on the smooth white curvature, Almost drowning in the bathtub of regret. Eight eyes looking up at me, a face he will never forget.

I’ll never understand how you dumped water on me but didn’t notice me drowning.

You drown not by falling in a river, but by staying submerged in it.

I’m suffocating on empty promises and twisted truths. I’m drowning in a bottomless pool of illusion.

If drowning taught me how to swim, this fall will teach me how to fall.

They say love comes in waves; yours is the only ocean I’m willing to drown in.

To love you is to drown every day & still crave the taste of the ocean.