In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

My background was in performing originally.

When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

I like when things happen organically and make sense.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams.