There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Always sing below your potential.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it!

If you think that your life is amazing, wait till you see what God has lined up for you in the future. But remember, you have to keep pushing forward with bigger goals and ideas.

I like to read stories where heroes are actually heroes.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.