Jimmy Carter: “The idea that lack of money should be no barrier to a college education is no longer a dream, it's a reality.”

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

There's only one chance and one life to count for something. And my faith tells me, or my faith demands, that I use whatever I have whenever I can, to make a difference in people's lives.

The aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first -- first leg of a journey home. And at every one of the 52 hostages was alive, was well and free.