Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

There was something more than a little satisfying about ripping the heart out of someone the moment before they expected to do the same to you.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

What love lays bare in me is energy.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!