The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

Life Begins at the end of your comfort zone.

To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

I made all my mistakes playing with people.

Christ has no place in the life that is not dominated by the Word. - T.B. Joshua