Stay a child while you can be a child.

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.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived—what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of my face.

Progress is learning to control your world.

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

A faire death honours the whole life.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.