When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has read more

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to read more

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Understanding is a two-way street.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand read more

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never read more

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may read more

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.