“As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.”

“This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than ever before.”

“Can we not appreciate that our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves? To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays, to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could, to give as we have never given, to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever—this is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.”

“Facts are our friends. The longer we as a society insist on ignoring them when they get too uncomfortable, the more we erode our potential to be truly great.”

“If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more peaceful and vital ”

“All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.”