It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

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.

Where is miracle? None they can’t see.Where is hope? I only see light on the sea.

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

We shall face many troubles. But the Lord shall deliver us from each one of them.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.

When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that much on the street.