The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

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

Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn't mean the way we feel about them has to be.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.

I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.