Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

I'll give you an example — in Russia most of the hospitals don't have any pain medicine, they don't have any money. So if you're with kids with cancer, they can have metastases to the bone; which some say is the worst pain a human can experience. So a mother can be in a room with a child who hasn't stopped screaming in five months. …85% of the time I walk in there as a clown they'll stop

screaming.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.