The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

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.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

And then in a moment of pure magic, our lips touch tenderly and sensitively!

That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

God saved us so that we could become servants of his will and dedicate ourselves to what he wants us to do

I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

When the buying stops, the killing can too.