There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.