Quotes from Robert Fulghum

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

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

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

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.

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.

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

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

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.

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.

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

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

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

Clean up your own mess.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

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

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

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

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

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

No. I was an only child.

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.