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

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.

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.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.