Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

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.

I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

We hunger for connection but take pride in being distant.

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

The only way to find out is to find out.

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!