Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk...
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
As long as life exists, something always happens next. There are always consequences—always sequels.
It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since whe...
And snow—snow is not my enemy, I tell him. Snow is God’s way of telling people to slow down and rest and stay in bed for a day. And besides, snow always solves itself. Mixes with the leaves to form mo...
So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...
I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash.
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
You know, without realizing it we fill important places in each other's lives.
What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a whil...
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)
There are far worse things to drop on people than Crayolas.
Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English:'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do.There is really nothing...
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten