I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

In the wrong environment your weakness is evident, but in the right environment, you function from a place of strength.

You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.