What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Always sing below your potential.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

If it makes you feel any better we will be happy to attack a country that had nothing to do with it.

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style.

Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.

I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

So: see ya, and I wouldn't wanna be ya.