“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.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It’s in that exchange and that relationship.

To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act’s limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.