“The disadvantage of always understanding people is that you care more about others and eventually forgetting yourself.”

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate ‘the other’. They want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. They want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate and we will never be silent for life is ours!”

“But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.”

“I dont think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.”

“Discovery originates out of unusual observations that curiosity demands to understand.”

“It’s when I begin to understand life that I begin to understand so little.”

“Wisdom helps us understand that love, knowledge and compassion are what keep the fabric of the universe intact.”

“If it wasn’t for Buddha’s wisdom we would not understand the love within the world around us.”

“Receiver:Speech discriminates between listening ears even if sound does not.”

“I think, perhaps, that I begin to understand how much I do not know.”

“It’s when we see the birth of a new born day that we truly appreciate what it is to be a parent when their new baby is born.”

“I can’t begin to understand love, but I don’t need to because all I know is that I love you, and that’s good enough for me.”

“The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.”

“If I take this imagination of mine and multiply it a thousand times over, even then I have yet to touch even the barest hem of heaven.”

“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes — or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist — not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”