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All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know

— Robert Fulghum All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

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Play Fair. | Don’t hit people. | Put things back where you found them. | Clean up your own mess. | Don’t take things that aren’t yours. | Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

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I make art in and for the experience itself — to satisfy a need to express myself in a creative, colorful, non-verbal way.

Introduction to the Art gallery at his website (2006)

My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the living out of my life.

Words I Wish I Wrote (1997)

They've added an important dimension to the lives of the young people of their town — that lightness of being that belongs to dancers.

Love the battle between chaos and imagination.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001)

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