Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

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.

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.

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

Without humor, we’d all be what we’re laughing at. Without arrogance, we’d be humiliated to admit we already are.

If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear To stack more dough more calmly this year.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.