A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

Protecting our environment is not a luxury we can choose to enjoy, but a simple matter of survival.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.