I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

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.

Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.