Listen with your eyes for feelings.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Smiles are the language of love.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

A person hears only what they understand.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

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.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

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

I never fall in love.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.