He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

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

The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see.

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.