Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

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 words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

To reject the Word of God is to forsake the holy grace.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

He who has never hoped can never despair

If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.