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.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787 but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits it is part of my own being.

In Goddess religion death is not feared but is understood to be a part of life followed by birth and renewal.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics haircuts or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix lose our stuff and on occasion they crash producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.