Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

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.

God lives in the Now. There is always peace in the present moment.

The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear

Fear kills more than disease.

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Once best friends now strangers with memories.