“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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.

whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.