I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

A. J. McLean

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Kahlil Gibran

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Hermann Hesse

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

Henry David Thoreau

For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.

Bhagavad Gita

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Deepak Chopra

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Ella Maillart

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Dalton Trumbo