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

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.

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.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment.

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

We’ve really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn’t have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.