“Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.”

“Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.”

“It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. ”

“...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.”

“He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.”

“Some phone calls he doesn't say much and I know he called just to hear my voice. That's all he wants- to hear me tell him about my day, what the surf's like, what work's like. And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.”