Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.”
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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954Related quotes

“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”
Written as an epitaph based upon his lyrics to "Lord of the Dance".

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Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 53

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When receiving an award from an organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
[Geeks Win: A survey of the oddballs who write the codes that make the 21st-century world go round, The New York Times Book Review, BR18, 03624331, 4 November 2001]