Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

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.

But I feel like I could not live... if you weren't in my life.” -Nik Driver

Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day like those of a baseball player.

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

We were over-whelming underdogs.