Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.