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.

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.

A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

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

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.