The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

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!

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.