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

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

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.

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

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

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

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