We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was leaving tonight. You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you.

There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots.

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.