It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

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.

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

I am enjoying my life because things aren't going the way I planned.

Your close friends are essentially important in making you a person of high personal worth and success.

We learn best when we're on edge. Focused on the moment, ready for anything...

Personality too is destiny.

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.