The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

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.

If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

I can't ask the offense to score slower.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more