Simple Thrills: There Is So Much We Can Learn

To these creative souls who have served to add just a little more colour to a life they have unknowingly touched, I extend my deepest gratitude.

How adorable, how simple, how childish, and yet how optimistically true.

- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

- Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold!)

- The team at Les' Copaque (Upin & Ipin)

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And everytime a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - box of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

- Robert Fulghum

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe