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.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.