Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

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.

Physical wounds heal, but those on the soul are difficult to heal.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.

Messi is a natural born talent, that is not to say he doesn’t work hard, but you can’t teach what he can do.

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.