I have found that if you love life life will love you back.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

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

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

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

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.

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

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

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

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.

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

Don't lead enthusiasm out of your life! Else life won't lead you anywhere.

If your presence doesn't work, neither will your word.

It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.

What is that hair? So yesterday.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.