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

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.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

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

A romantic date for me is sitting in pajamas and being with a guy with whom I can be myself.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

I think the messages are very positive. You know, "Make America great again" is a very positive message. It's not a negative message.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.