Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

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.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

I fell in love with these two passions that I made into careers, and I've never had to give one up.

I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

A second ago is gone, and a second from now might be. Now is all you've got. Go for it!

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.