You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

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.

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

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

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.