For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Don’t judge anything. If you have to judge, judge with kindness and love.

Every individual is unique with unique talents.

. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.

Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.