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

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.

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

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

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.

It's so easy to laughIt's so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce....I thought he was missing.

Happiness is a moral obligation

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.