There Are No Shortcuts To Any Place

Opera Is An Extremely Disciplined Art Form, And Every Excess A Singer Indulges In Has A Direct Effect On The Voice.

I Had Found A Kind Of Serenity, A New Maturity. I Didn't Feel Better Or Stronger Than Anyone Else But It Seemed No Longer Important Whether Everyone Loved Me Or Not - More Important Now Was For Me To Love Them. Feeling That Way Turns Your Whole Life Around; Living Becomes The Act Of Giving.

A Primary Function Of Art And Thought Is To Liberate The Individual From The Tyranny Of His Culture In The Environmental Sense And To Permit Him To Stand Beyond It In An Autonomy Of Perception And Judgment.

There Is A Growing Strength In Women, But It Is In The Forehead, Not In The Forearm.

There Are No Shortcuts To Any Place Worth Going.