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It's a wonderful life and I love it.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe, ... Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

Watch out for the icy patch

I hope that something better comes along.

If you can't beat them. Join them

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Take what you got and fly with it.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside ... Inside.

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

Cara: *Flies*
Gen: What? I don't have wings!
Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

I don't want'a die ... I have other plans!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

I think if you study
if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

There's not a word nevertheless, for previous pals who've just fulfilled.

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed
in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what
you enjoy doing.

No time is wasted time

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

I don't want'a die ... I have other plans! -Fraggle Rock

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.