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

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

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.

People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.

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.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

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