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.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.