I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

It is highly impossible for you to be successful at what you don’t love. Do what you love and love what you do.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes

When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field.