Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then suddenly to be living alone as the President's widow?

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body let alone the mind or both in combination when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

The law was made for one thing alone for the exploitation of those who don't understand it or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Regardless of age regardless of position regardless of the business we happen to be in all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

I began to understand my sensations to know what I wanted at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

My wife and I unlike many intellectuals spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.