I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.