I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!

Their confidence gives those they lead the assurance that their words and their actions are reliable.

Enjoy how sweet how thoughtful how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

We threw passes enough that we were prime to catch them and get up to speed. I think we will be fine there.

If you don't go, you'll never know.