Robert Fulghum

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 examined life is no picnic.

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

Clean up your own mess.

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.