Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

We forget that the power of God isn’t in a weapon or a leader, but within us.

Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything.-Lula

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Smile, laugh, spread a little joy in someone's life, it surely come back on you in a good way.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.