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

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

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.

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

... 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.

You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.

Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.

Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.