In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

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.

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

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.

Developing a commanding presence is essential for leadership and a powerful impact.

Giving is Living

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.