She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

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.

Banyak orang berkata jika rindu itu pahit, aku curiga mereka menyimpan rindu di empedu bukan dihati.

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you’re a Smurf.

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.