Ladies and gentlemen god bless America - land of the free home of the brave.

Well look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate ease health and applause and even life to the sacred calls of his country.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze friendly almost gentle.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game especially these days.

The person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny that humor comes from a much gentler place.