“People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.”
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA <br class="br">Context: 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.
Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 10
“I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.”
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016)
Context: 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.
Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 121