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" The examined life is no picnic. "

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" Clean up your own mess. "

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" Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood. "

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

" My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong in everybody involved. "

" To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' "

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

" I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. "

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

" Patterns of repetition govern each day, week, year, and lifetime. 'Personal habits' is one term we use to describe the most common of these repeated patterns. But I say these habits are sacred because they give deliberate structure to our lives. Structure gives us a sense of security. And that sense of security is the ground of meaning. "

" Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. "

" 'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that. "

" 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. "

" Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. "