“Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.”

“… treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.”

“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”

“… you don't realize whether or not you completely understand a topic until you are tasked to explain it to someone else. … That really challenges your understanding of a topic.”

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

“I'll tell you something. When you see you become part of the cycle of generations, you lose your ego in the process, because you ain't nothin' special. You're just another cipher in the generations. When you devote all your interest into another person, you lose your self-obsession, and that's when you understand what it is. You don't know (anything) without that moment. You don't want anything to harm this helpless being. That's a fantastic change. And that's when you understand what's happening. I never understood anything until my first baby looked at me. I didn't understand (anything). Now I understand.”

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

“I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”