It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

Belief is the creed of the fearless.. Follow through your dreams religiously, keep it running like the DNA embedded in your system... Believe

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

Never block that person who is always available for you all the time. Never block him because you may not know what he has done for you. It is the biggest mistake you do in your life

Without growth, organizations struggle to add talented people. Without talented people, organizations struggle to grow.

It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.

The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.

The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.