Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.