Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

—Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

—Robert Green Ingersoll

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

—Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

—Robert Green Ingersoll

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

—Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

—Anna Sewell

So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There are no miracles. There are no trumpets, no fanfares, no absolutions.But she sees now that there are brief moments of, if not goodness, then kindness: a thoughtful gesture, a friendly word, an absence of anger now and again.

—Christiane Buuck

You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

—Steven Wright