Confine your kissing to the irresistible.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm... she had dimples of iron.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

We want an ensemble of stars, not comets.

I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

Unless a convention of anarchists visited the library yesterday, most books ought to be in their rightful places.

You can’t do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It’s okay to ask for help when you need it.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

Don't pray for materialstic things. Pray for internal peace what God wills for you.

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

He doesn't need to fight anymore, but fighting is what he does

Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.