I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning like the pure air of the mountains - so simple so true if once understood.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will but I'd rather have a complicated misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them and he rendered his judgment wise or unwise on the merits.

Upon the Constitution upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People as understood in this country and in England I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life but in a new way.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence not as constraints on our power.

The more I have studied Lincoln the more I have followed his thought processes the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.