“Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.”
Richard Brookhiser“Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln“Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln“Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln“Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln“Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln“The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln“She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln“Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.”
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln