Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

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.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!