The high note is not the only thing.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

God is my security.

We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.