Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

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.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Pursue your dreams unceasingly until you achieve exactly what it is that you imagined.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.

I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Don't cut it," he said gruffly. "But no one'll see my tattoos if I don't." "Wear it up." -Dimitri, Rose, Dimitri

Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.