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

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.

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

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.