"I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy."

“Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.”

“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.”

“When you go to Africa and you see people who are just like you and me - this is always my starting point. These are people who are just like you and me. The same synapses, same things are firing off in their heads, same dreams for their children, same hopes and aspirations that we all have. What can one do to reduce the possibility that their chances of a happy and healthy and prosperous life are not solely determined by the accident of where they were born?”

“There's beauty in everything, but not everyone is able to feel it.”

“Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.”

“When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.”

Source : "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

“I’ve always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.”

Source : "Annaleigh Ashford Takes ‘Lost In The Stars,’ Her Glitzy Solo Cabaret, On The Road". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.

“The early morning has gold in its mouth.”