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 … - Patch Adams

Any can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.

You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.

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.