Quotations

"Be Strong. Be Gentle. Be Beautiful."

— Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American female martial artist, born 1913

"Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name of God is like the fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like arguing over who owns the dog."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

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

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything. Don't hit people. Clean up your own mess. Take a nap every afternoon, and, when you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"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."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

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

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"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."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"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."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it."

— Robert Fulghum, American author, born 1937

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

— Buckminster Fuller, American architect, born 1895

"Light—God's eldest daughter."

— Thomas Fuller, English churchman, born 1710