As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

When you work hard, good things happen

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.