Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?

Fathers are no longer men, most are only boys who pretend.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.