Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never complain and never explain.
Only the educated are free.
Know or listen to those who know.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.