I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

Smiling is the most powerful exercise to build a joyful mind and a blissful heart.

The more I speak the more I make mistakes so. I speak less and listen more

It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher.

Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.

I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.