Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Never complain and never explain.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
I can, therefore I am.
Only the educated are free.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.