We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

The Gospel of God is glad tidings of good things.

Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.

Family drama is a trade off for having family.

Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.