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.

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

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.

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.

It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

Realism and art cannot live together.