Robert Fulghum

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

“The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.”

“The examined life is no picnic.”

“All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.”

“Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will break my heart.”

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life. Take a nap every afternoon.”

“We're all in this alone.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts.”

“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

“Love is a verb. Not a noun.”

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