Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

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.

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.

The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

Some of them relate to farts but they are not fart jokes. They would just be a fart in the joke but it's about something else.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I think there's still room for compelling voices to build up and get a great following.

I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.