My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

I am not an artist which is 'in.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.