Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Know or listen to those who know.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.