We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.