“Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.”

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.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

When one door is closed, don’t you know that many more are open.

It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

You can’t be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.