When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

In Italy I had an Afro and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood as well as the power it can release in an individual.

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.