For my part, it was Greek to me.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.