We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

It will happen but it will take time.

It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.

Everything, good or bad, was down to me.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind