Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

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.

Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

We're all in this together - by ourselves.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.