If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

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.

Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.