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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

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

Play is the work of childhood.

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

An honest man is always a child.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.