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

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.

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

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 old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

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

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

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

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