“You can’t change what you don’t understand.”

““Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.”
“Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.”
Alvin chuckled grimly. “Oh, that mouth you’ve got.”
“You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.””

“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

“You can’t magically change your. You can’t magically change your sex. You can’t magically change your age.”

“You can’t change how people feel about you, so don’t try. Just live your life and be happy.”

“Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.”

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”

“If you want a conservative country, you need a conservative populace. Immigration is changing the country, and there will be no changing it back. If you don’t understand that, you are the enemy of any conservative undertaking.”

“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”

“Can’t you understand what an important task we’ve been entrusted with?”