The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

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.

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

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