I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Respect the burden.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

My life has been very full.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.