When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?