I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

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