Quotes from Patch Adams

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

Please give your life to peace, justice and care.

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.

I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

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

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.