“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”

“No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.”

“Where's the sense in stealing, without the grace to be it?”

“While no other success of ours can compensate for our failures within or outside our homes, there is a success that can compensate when we cannot, after we conscientiously do all we can. That success is the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which can mend what for us is beyond repair.”

“Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without both apprehension and adventure; they were giants on the earth in those days.”

“Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.”

“Det er ikke noe å diskutere, Anastasia. Hvis du skal drikke – og kaste alkohol på eksene mine – må du også spise. Det er regel nummer én. Jeg trodde vi hadde den diskusjonen allerede etter vår første natt sammen.”