"Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawle..."
- Maude Adams
"player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually."
- John Adams
"Success has made failures of many men."
- Cindy Adams
"We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!"
- George Matthew Adams
"The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall."
- Thomas Adams
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
- Madame de Stael
"Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels."
- Henry Adams
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops."
"We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past."
- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek