My difficulties belong to me!

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.