"I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future."

"I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country."

"I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God."

"I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'"

"It is a unyielding truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering."

"It is a profound truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions — an essential principle for the reflective life."