Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

As water changes its shape according to the shape of the vessel, I change myself by changing my thoughts.

I think I've found someone with who I want to spend my life with and that person...Isn't you.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.