what is most personal is most universal
Emotion is contagious.
Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they're laughing or crying - that's what makes me happy.
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.
... a saucer into which the nation's passions may be poured to cool.
Describing the U. S. Senate:
