Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.