Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Love cannot be FAKED, It will eventually Reveal itself in Action

Jerks aren't heartbreakers there just fools with good taste.

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

[W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.