You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.