Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

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.

Never worry about what others have

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

Smart work is also important but it is not replacement for hard work

Everything God created was created in a seed form, small and miniature.

They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it

How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.