The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.

No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath, and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.