When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.