The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.

And... Know thyself Know Know

Pain is in the mind. And, in my mind, ma chérie … I was withyou.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.