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

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.

With Christ Jesus, we are overcomers.

But home did not seem the right word for it. It hadn’t quite been home for years. Not like it used to be.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.