Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.  A happiness weapon.  A beauty bomb.  And every time 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 - boxes 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

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” 

~Pablo Picasso

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

EUGENE IONESCOPresent Past / Past Present

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. 

~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.

YODA, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

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

~Albert Einstein

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. 

~Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Cat's Eye Nebula Hangs in Space (NASA, Chandra, 7/30/08)

Crab Nebula: A Star's Spectacular Death (NASA, Chandra, 10/24/06)

NGC 3079 (A spiral galaxy about 55 million light years from Earth.)

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/