Most principles are limp until they are tested.

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.

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

I think every woman should have leopard, but not every woman will wear leopard. You have to have courage to wear leopard.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.