If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.

Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.