The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

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.

Normally ghosts didn't scare him. (Assuming, of course, Gaea hadn't encased them in shells of stone and turned them into killing machines. That had been a new one for him.)

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Stay a little and news will find you.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

This year is very difficult for me to run after I after I lose my fiancee. I'm not preparing very well. I have sadness in my heart.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.