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

...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 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.

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

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

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.