Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Well done is better than well said.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I can, therefore I am.
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.