We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

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.

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

The Decision...I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before...

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.