“The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.”

“Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.”

“You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony.”

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world....”

“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”

“The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”