I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

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.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

Wherever you are remember that you represent Christ

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

"Girl, are you on medication?" Nurse Debra asked."No, of course not," Madison answered impatiently."Maybe you should be," Debra muttered.

You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.