Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements.

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.

The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

I love the interrelatedness of things.

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.