Most of what 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 sandbox.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. 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. Wash your hands before you eat.
Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and sing and dance and play
and work every day some. Take a nap in the afternoon. When you go out into the world, 
watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. 
Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up, 
and nobody really knows why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and 
white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup--they all die. So do we. 
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, 
the biggest word of all: look. Everything you need to know is in
there somewhere. The golden rule and love and basic sanitation. 
Ecology and politics and sane living. Think of what a better world it would be if we
 all had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down 
with our blankets for a nap.
Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and  other nations always to put things back
where we found them and cleaned  up our own messes. 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. -
~Robert Fulghum~