There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

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.

Look at him, ” she said, shaking her head. “Travis Maddox: Mr. Mom.

Calm is not a place where there is no noise or activity. It is the ability to be in the midst of these, yet experiencing peace within.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.