The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.