To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You never know what motivates you.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.