Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

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.

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

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

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard