Our lives are shaped by those who love us

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.