One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

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.

Measure your life by products and by the results you produce.

When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.

Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.

I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

We have weakened our economy in America. We need a strong economy.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.