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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

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

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

The less you know, the more you believe.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

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

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Respect the burden.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

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