He often spoke lovingly of his mother as a "Quaker saint," and began his memoirs with the words "I was born in a house my father built."
しかし、リチャードはいつも両親を褒め称え、母を愛情を込めて"Quaker saint,"と言い、"I was born in a house my father built."という言葉で回顧録を始めた。