Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

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.