Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

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.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

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

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

What you guys want, I’m for.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

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

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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 don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

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

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

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

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.