Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

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

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

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

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

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

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

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

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

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

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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

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

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.