I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

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.

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

The mind is the source of infinite power

When a good change is flowing towards you, don’t stand like the river stones before it!

In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil.

If you want to grow, you must learn to let go.

And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.

Honor does not have to be defended.