"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later."

“Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”

“We're all in this together. Choose love.”

Source : "Jo Dee Messina: On Turning Life into Song". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.”

“What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about how we tell stories and the way stories are very subjective. How we tell some things and leave other things out in the way The Princess Bride is or The Wizard of Oz is, which both have a framing device.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.”

Source : "The Poetry of War 1939-45". Book edited by Ian Hamilton, 1965.

“The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will”

“I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Old fools are greater fools than young ones.”