Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.