No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

He who strays discovers new paths.

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.