I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Great people don’t only know what to say

If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

Your intention to love, no matter what, is the absolute key to happiness.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.