Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

Happiness that comes and never leaves

Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values!

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

Sleep is for squares.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

I feel like I'm a big human snot.

There's a king in every crowd.

A heart is a heart in a child or a man.