Robert Fulghum

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.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

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.

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

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.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

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.

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

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

On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household.

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