When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.

the truth is artistically fallacious.

Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.