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.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

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.