Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
You never know what motivates you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Well done is better than well said.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.