I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what...
It's so weird to me, but the whole Broadway community loves the way I sing!
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; 3. Hope to all.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure
Friendship is a sheltering tree
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the...
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks