1. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
2. “The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.”
3. “Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.”
4. “Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.”
5. “I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.”
6. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
7. “I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.”
8. “There is a growing strength in women but it’s in the forehead, not the forearm.”
9. “In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
10. “Art is he signature of civilizations.”
