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.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

How can we help President Obama?

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

That government is best which governs least.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.