Quotes about Understanding

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

Come now. let us reason together.

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

Rafe hadn't been around women much, but since he'd gotten married to one of the little critters, he'd noticed they seemed to have to say out loud every thought in their head. Including stuff everybody already knew. It'd snowed. Today it was real nice. It was called weather. What was there to talk about?

I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.

You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn't make sense." "Maybe the concepts don't make sense. Maybe they don't mean what people have been taught to think they mean.