When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

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.

Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.