He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

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.

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

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

If you can't beat them. Join them

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

It's going to be unbelievable, you know. There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes.