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

Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different

My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous and deserve to live an extraordinary life. Fake it if you must and keep faking it until it’s real to you. The gift you will be giving yourself is a lifelong journey of discovery, one that is infinite and infinitely rewarding. Begin the journey. Today. This moment. Now

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding