The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

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.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.