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.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

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.

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

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.