Jimmy Carter

"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."

- Jimmy Carter

"Testing oneself is best when done alone."

- Jimmy Carter

"I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners."

- Jimmy Carter

"I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue."

- Jimmy Carter

"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."

- Jimmy Carter

"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself—always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested in adversity."

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

"It is good to realize that, if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana."

- Jimmy Carter

"Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton."

- Jimmy Carter

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."

- Jimmy Carter