Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.