“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”