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.

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

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

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.