All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Instructions For Wayfarers They 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 you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . —Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH

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

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 need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

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?

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.