The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Play is really the work of childhood.

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.