You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

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.

The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength.

The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!

The first thousand are the hardest.

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

Don't let anyone say you can't do it.

I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.