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.
Beverly Sills

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Beverly Sills

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

Art is the signature of civilizations.
Beverly Sills

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Beverly Sills