"To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion."

“The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.”

“I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.”

Source : "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview with Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

“You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.”

“Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.”

“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”

“Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.”

“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”

“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”