I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph.

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.