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.

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

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

A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

To learn is to be young, however old.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.