I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

I've signed a few sneakers in my day.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou.