Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Giancarlo Esposito

I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?

Cassandra Clare

I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you.

Harlan Miller

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Diane Keaton

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

Plato

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

Darren Criss

Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly.

Masaharu Taniguchi

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

Swami Vivekananda

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

William Arthur Ward

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

George Orwell

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Maria Shriver

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William C. Bagley, Craftmanship