When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

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.

Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous

To restore a lost relationship is your choice

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all.