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

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.

She didn't know why being near him made the beast inside her go away, and she didn't care. She was Minka in his arms and a monster out of them. That was all that mattered to her.

I’ve attempted to bring together as many perspectives as possible, not in order to be exhaustive–but to celebrate the many different approaches to appreciating Shakespeare that there are possible

Whatever is-is best.

While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.

I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.

Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.