The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

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.

Every kind deed is an act of love.

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

I love Hugh Jackman. Love Hugh Jackman. He's the coolest. He's one of the coolest actors I've ever worked with, and I'll do anything with him.

Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.

We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.

Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.

What do you do after you go to space, more importantly? You can't go to a more intense, awesome thing. That's the end.

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.