When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.
I detest so much. . . those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.
Fashion is a capricious deity.
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.
His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His presence. Do not disturb this by anxiety to know what is in store for tomorrow. Out of the very tranquility of worship will be born the guidance you need.
Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!