My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

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.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!

She took his hand, and he smiled down at her. "No mating yet?" "It depends on how...persuasive you could be." "Hot damn, woman. I can be persuasive.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.

My redeemer is always the person next to me.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.