"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."

"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."

"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."

"I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am."

"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."