The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

We are all captives of a story.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

The Goal can disappear From the mind's sight But not From the heart's vision.