“Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them”

“There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care.”

“You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up”

“When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer — you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.”

“You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.”

“I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?”

“Don't expect them to fully understand you. They won't: So? Demonstrate with results what they would not understand with words!”

“Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.”

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”

“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”