Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.