Stephen Sondheim

“Wishes come true, not free.”

“The more restrictions you have, the more you're forced to be creative.”

“Send in the clowns.”

“Nice is different than good.”

“Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art.”

“The worst is when you know you have to do something, and you can't.”

“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.”

“Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.”

“Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.”

“Someone is on your side. No one is alone.”

“Pretty isn't beautiful, Mother. Pretty is what changes. What the eye arranges is what is beautiful.”

“I've always been a book person, not a movie person.”

“Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.”

“If you can't be a hero, you can at least be a villain.”

“Careful the things you say, children will listen.”

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”

“Good times and bad times, I've seen them all and, my dear, I'm still here.”