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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.