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

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.

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

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

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

We are much more than pretty... we are wonderfully made. We are much more than likable... we are deeply loved. We are much more than ok... we are the daughters of the King.

Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.

We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.

Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.