I read to see myself in other people's lives.

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.

The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

Prayer opens the window of heaven.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.