If you've got a talent, protect it.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
It's always too early to quit.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.