I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.