"I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck."

“What I’ve learned along the way is that existence is cosmic theatre, but paradoxically, we should play our roles to the absolute best of our ability while having the wisdom not to take them too seriously.”

“All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

“Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.”

“It's hard enough to be a heterosexual playing gay and not having the gay gestures.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

“I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.”

“Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized.”

Source : Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

“Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.”