Well done is better than well said.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.