When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

performance is an act of faith.