She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

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.

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

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

I can't do that to myself...

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.