growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.More Abigail McCarthy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.More Abigail McCarthy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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. 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.More Abigail McCarthy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Abigail McCarthy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.More Abigail McCarthy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]