I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.

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.

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move(ment).

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.