A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals ' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.