Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.

Realism and art cannot live together.