The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

I don’t know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don’t knock it. Villains are much more fun.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every...

Yet she was so sweet. She wasn’t a hard-ass, wasn’t jaded after all that had been done to her. In bed, she was giving and generous. And she smiled a lot. She seemed to enjoy...

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn’t it?” He didn’t wait for her confirmation. “Yes. Well. Tell me…that bit just now…was that from Dante’s Inferno?”Uh…no,” Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.Really?”I’m in for it.Are you sure?”...

JACKYou’re quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it,...

Friendship is constant in all other thingsSave in the office and affairs of love.Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.Let every eye negotiate for itself,And trust no agent; for beauty is a witchAgainst...

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

In childbirth grief begins.

Everyone born is on the field of life’s game, but not everyone does wear the jersey of vision! Some people are fair players and others are injury causers; you joke with the later and they...

It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time...

Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate...

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly...

Sometimes, the inessential is essential.

Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give;...

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully...

The blame game is already a lost game, so don’t attempt dressing up to play it! Blames create no change; winners don’t apportion blames!

I am love, I love air, water, sun, green, hands, butterflies, birds, fish, cats, trees, you – walking, swimming, dancing, exploring new places, exploring tiny things, exploring thoughts, dreams, bigger than me dreams, like cloud...

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

What can I say? I’m a magnificent specimen of manhood. Of course they all want me. But I do appreciate you protecting my honor.

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles,...

Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women’s back.

You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well...

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

He cried, almost entire night. He cried alone in his small shed. That was only game that he could play without needing another person to participate.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one’s ease as when one has to play a part.

Henry: I usen’t to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything,...

Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only...

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it’s great to see that somebody’s still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live – and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!

Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the dark, when all of a sudden I feel one of ’em tug at my...

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam, drawn on the ground. The circle as such, however, has a magic significance....

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

Children’s SongWe live in our own world,A world that is too smallFor you to stoop and enterEven on hands and knees,The adult subterfuge.And though you probe and pryWith analytic eye,And eavesdrop all our talkWith an...

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work,...

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to...

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

Did you just call my kiss ‘nice enough’?

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

The art and craft of early childhood teaching is in making decisions about fun, play and work. And it is this crafting that distinguishes the professional from the baby-sitter, parent or child minder.

He’s at war with himself. Why doesn’t he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must cut him loose from.