If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

Get my swan costume ready.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Play the last measure very softly.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.