Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

To achieve something, you need to be a little selfish...!!

I feel it is important to point out that individuals can make a difference, that things that seem impossible one day might suddenly shift into a possibility the next day.

There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.

I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

If someone asks, But what is Love? Answer, Dissolving the will.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.