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.

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

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

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.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

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

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.