When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

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.

You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The greater the need, the greater the quest for God.

True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most.

Mercy and cowardice are the same, " she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!