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

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.

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.

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

The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.

i'm like a prickily pear...i'm a prickily pear!!!

Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.

'Tis Fate that flings the dice And as she flings Of kings makes peasants And of peasants kings.

You have to do more than just talk about work. You have to really reward the people who are out there doing it.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Let me arise and open the gate, to breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and to let out Hate, And anger at living and scorn of Fate, To let in Life, and to let out Death.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.