I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

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.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.