After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

You are often prevented from reaching your full potential because you hold so tightly to your past success.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask"Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

I don’t care what you meant to do. I really don’t.I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.---

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.