Quotes about Understanding

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

I never really realized how privileged I was in the way I grew up.

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Me and Aamir are like friends. We understand each other so well and it's easier I think as we have same profession.

If you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you have differences, you can find common ground on a way forward.

That's something that the world needs to learn today: that you can disagree and still be friends.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.