When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.