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Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults — for schoolrooms and nations.

— Robert Fulghum All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

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I make art in and for the experience itself — to satisfy a need to express myself in a creative, colorful, non-verbal way.

Introduction to the Art gallery at his website (2006)

My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the living out of my life.

Words I Wish I Wrote (1997)

They've added an important dimension to the lives of the young people of their town — that lightness of being that belongs to dancers.

Love the battle between chaos and imagination.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001)

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Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

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