The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.

I don't deserve this but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

Some movies work and some don't.