What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.