After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

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.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

So all my best is dressing old words new.