The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

Your world is as big as you make it.I know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

To be a professional you have to act like one as well..

I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.