Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

I look after people.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

What one fool can understand, another can.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

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.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

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

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

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

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.