I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Right here, right now, God has placed you to do what you do best. Go all the way.

You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

That's what character is, it's in the trying.

Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.

In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Everybody has their own story, everybody has their own journey.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.