We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.

Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

With freedom comes responsibility

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.