Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.

The past places no absolute limit on the future.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.

On his way offstage, the president shook hands with Lin and said, "I'm proud of you, man." (In a gesture of self-restraint, Lin had stuck to the performance calendar they had announced before learning that President Obama was coming, the one that said Javier Muñoz would play Hamilton that afternoon.)

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette

[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.

Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the I’m a Fraud phase. You go through the I’ll Never Finish phase. And every once in a while you think, What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?

[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.

My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.