Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Who seeks shall find.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.