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

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

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.

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 cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

Love has no limits, which is why we fall impulsively into the depths of our feelings.

Each of us is a universe of our living cells.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.