Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

Maybe I’m not the Boy Scout you think I am.

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.