Respect the burden.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

We all have the duty to do good.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.