While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

In Italy I had an Afro and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

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

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood as well as the power it can release in an individual.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.

I was the black sheep of the family and my mother never really understood me.

The solid middle-class values of hard work responsibility family community and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.