"I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang."

"The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm."

"In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us."

"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."

"Life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."

"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."