“When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed.”

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 exhaustion.

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

I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don’t like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.

I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me.

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

Types really don’t matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven’t anything to do with glamour.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.