Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

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.

You have grace to live your dreams.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.