"Joseph Brackett's Simple Gifts"

"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you …"

"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night."

"One may be humble out of pride."

"I am no more humble than my talents require."

"Our mother is coming home and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening."

"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful clie…"