Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'