Sometimes you feel like you are on top of the world, and at other times it feels like the world is on top of you.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.