The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

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.

A dreamer rises above their inherent fearfulness that they will always produce inferior work and grants oneself a license to put forth their best effort.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

As a fighter, you've got to do what you've got to do to get the big fights.

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.