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

Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. “Open it!” Leo yelled again.

To believe the non-Self’s intent as the Self’s intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that ‘I am the doer’

Richness is not in wealth or earning capability, but it is in your perception.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives