Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

When you start somewhere, you've started.