It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years.

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.