[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann

...heaven wouldn’t be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death

I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.