Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

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.

Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.

Miss Gerhart, the last time I saw you, you had quite a mouthful to shout at me. You’re really quiet today. Cat got your tongue?

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.