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“What we had done was to seek out, in our chosen home community, those things that were the most meaningful to us. We realized that it is all too easy to ignore the natural beauty and simple pleasure right around us and to complain instead about dull surroundings or the inevitable hard knocks of life.”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

“We had made the exciting discovery that our lives do not need to be limited to past experiences. The future could be challenging and fulfilling as well.”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

“As our mountain friend says, 'It takes about forty-five or fifty years before we realize that we can go to bed at about ten o'clock and not miss anything much.”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

“Because of increasingly restrictive standards, many poor working people had been cut off Medicaid. Free clinics provided some medical care, but could not supply needed prescriptions or even such over-the-counter preparations as iron supplements for anemic mothers.”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

“There are more people now, more children, going without health care ... A medical team surveying twenty-five hundred poor children in the District found that eight out of ten had untreated medical or dental problems. The infant mortality rate in the District, already the highest in the nation and higher than that of many Third World nations, actually rose ... and prenatal care was considered an important causative factor. ~Lenore Horowitz, quoted by Jimmy Carter”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

“But we do have something we never had before: we have the added pressure of time. We can no longer wait around for the ideal opportunity. If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, then we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer. There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

“Since I was a young boy the thrust of my prayers--at least when I was trying to make a good impression on God--has always been that I not fail to use fully and effectively the one life I have on earth. I have always enjoyed difficult challenges. At the same time I have faced the realization that it is not easy to take a chance or confront the prospect of failure and embarrassment. But my feeling is that if we refuse to try something that might fail, we lack faith either in ourselves or in our causes and goals.”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life