When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society and cast off all regard to religion their case is much to be pitied.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America I plead guilty.

We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.

Men as well as women are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings sadness and drama. With just this one agreement you can completely transform your life.