Never complain and never explain.
You never know what motivates you.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Who seeks shall find.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.