I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.