Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

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

You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

Dreams do come true. They definitely do come true. It just takes a while, I guess. Sometimes it doesn't, but for me it did, anyway.