I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Everyone hears only what he understands.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.