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

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.

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 come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

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.

... 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.

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