I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

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

My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or an ex-president. I've tried to remember the teaching that we have to accommodate change we can't control in our lives, whether it's disappointment, sorrow, loss or failure, while simultaneously clinging to principles that never change.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.