It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Pain is a physical discipline.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do not control temperature.