I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

- Alice Herz-Sommer

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor…

- Alice Herz-Sommer

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

- Alice Herz-Sommer

I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.

- Alice Herz-Sommer

Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new. I…

- Alice Herz-Sommer

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

- Alice Herz-Sommer

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

- Alice Herz-Sommer

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

- Alice Herz-Sommer

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on…

- Alice Herz-Sommer