“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”

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.

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.

Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.

Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on.

There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.