If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Always sing below your potential.

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

The love is in the waiting...

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress, ' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people's negativity as a reminder of how not to be.