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.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

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

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

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.