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'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.

I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.