I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

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.

Immy knocked on his open door. "Mr. Mallett?"The look on his narrow face was pained. "What's with the Mr. Mallett? When you don't call me Mike, it's usually trouble.

In the world of lovers, there is no fear.

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.