It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.