Robert Fulghum

Clean up your own mess.

Dont worry that children never listen to you worry that they are always watching you.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Why is love easy? I don't know. And the raccoons don't say.

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

We could learn a lot from crayons some are sharp some are pretty some are dull while others bright some have weird names but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

We're a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love true love.

Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

Were all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love true love.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Live a balanced life learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture you know.

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

Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

The examined life is no picnic.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

And it is still true no matter how old you are when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Do you notice that all presidents have a dog? There is always a First Dog. Or two or three. You have to have a dog to be president, I guess.