Quotes about Understanding

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Comfort & peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only & always from what we know about Him.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

We talk about touching our guys in a personal way, knowing that we all want to play basketball and coach basketball, but our guys are dealing with stuff and we want to make sure we are sensitive to that.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.