Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.

Instructions For WayfarersThey will declare: Every journey has been taken.You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.They will insist: Everything has been spoken.You shall reply: I have not had my say.They will tell...

About winning and losing: It isn’t important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

I was 23 when I came to Bellingham in 1960 – from Mars, they must have thought. I’ve always had a very sentimental feeling about the importance of that first ministry in my life.

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don’t like in order to be...

One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then...

And sure, I know if you eat this way you’ll die. So? If you don’t eat this way you’re still going to die. Why not die happy?

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in...

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it...

Clean up your own mess.

As one old gentleman put it, ” Son, I don’t care if you’re stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you’re all right with me. It’s the music we...

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

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and...

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption – of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don’t be misled. They are news...

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

The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence...

Above all, if what you’ve done is stupid, but it works, it ain’t stupid.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts

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...

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...

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.

If you tell people you talk to God, they’ll think you’re religious, but if you say God talks to you, it’s ten to one they’ll think you’re crazy.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned–the biggest word of...

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

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.

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

I often say that I don’t worry about the meaning of life–I can’t handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life–day by day, hour by hour, while I’m doing whatever it...

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.

All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.

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

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...

Share everything. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Put things back where you found them.

Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life’s sensational moments.

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

All I really need to know … I learned in kindergarten.

Does the giraffe know what he’s for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to...

The examined life is no picnic

There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains — southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species —...

The examined life is no picnic.

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

Everything I need to know… I learned in kindergarten.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, ‘What...

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

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something youare, something you do,and something you give away.

When you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together

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...