The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.

I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "All right, I gotta figure out what my thing is. Because I'm not smarter than these kids. I'm not funnier than half of them, so I better figure out what it is I wanna do and work really hard at that because intellectually I'm treading water to, to be here."