To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

Mileage makes champions

My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows

Enthusiasm is the elixir of life.

I love the way you make me feel. I was incomplete without you.

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy

Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their situation is. Many of them likely would be offended at the suggestion.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.