“All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.”

“Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.”

“I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words...”

“Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches an...”

“I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.”

“I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.”

“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.”