You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

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 point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Does life has any value without love?

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.