Robert Fulghum

Clean up your own mess.

— Robert Fulghum

The examined life is no picnic.

— Robert Fulghum

No. I was an only child.

— Robert Fulghum

I believe in dancing.

— Robert Fulghum

“I may be wrong”

— Robert Fulghum

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

— Robert Fulghum

Now everybody has some secret goals in life.

— Robert Fulghum

If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.

— Robert Fulghum

“Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.”

— Robert Fulghum

“Imagination is better than knowledge.”

— Robert Fulghum

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

— Robert Fulghum

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

— Robert Fulghum

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

— Robert Fulghum

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

— Robert Fulghum

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

— Robert Fulghum

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

— Robert Fulghum

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

— Robert Fulghum

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of…

— Robert Fulghum

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as…

— Robert Fulghum

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

— Robert Fulghum

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

— Robert Fulghum

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it…

— Robert Fulghum

On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and…

— Robert Fulghum

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have…

— Robert Fulghum

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are…

— Robert Fulghum

It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream…

— Robert Fulghum

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem.…

— Robert Fulghum

You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they…

— Robert Fulghum

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts…

— Robert Fulghum

Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to…

— Robert Fulghum

“Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful…

— Robert Fulghum

“I am sometimes amazed at what we did not fully grasp in kindergarten. In the years I was a parish minister I…

— Robert Fulghum

Do you ever go off with a long grocery list and come home from the store with a bunch of different stuff?…

— Robert Fulghum

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally…

— Robert Fulghum

When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing…

— Robert Fulghum

“Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no…

— Robert Fulghum

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a…

— Robert Fulghum

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

— Robert Fulghum

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

— Robert Fulghum

“I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash.”

— Robert Fulghum