Isolation is the dream killer.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.