I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

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.

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

Arrogance is the last thing to die

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

I was never part of the crowd.

Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.

When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a character that happens to be perfect for them, then you make it happen.

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.