Bishops Quote by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

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