Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

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.

I walk alone in the dark. But the Creator shines a light on my path.

Falling doesn't mean Trailing but Straining

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Wine is to women as duct tape is to men - it fixes everything

Don't fall in love rise with it

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.