I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an ….

When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had c….

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams..

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaus….

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age..

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former..

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy..

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes..

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension..