Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

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.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health.

You may enrich the world in a million different ways.And you may enrich the world, simply, with your presence.

I would rather know than believe.

I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.