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.

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.

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.

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 basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

We glorify Christ when we live for God—trusting, loving, and obeying Him.

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Evil news fly faster still than good.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.