You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

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.

Be kind to all the people you meet on your journey.

Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

...nothing seemed quite as romantic as holding hands while you climaxed.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

Discipline is liberation.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.