In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

—Ovid

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

—Carl Jung

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

—Roger von Oech

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.

—Dewitt Jones

If I get to pick what I want to do, then it’s play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it’s work.

—Patricia Nourot

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

—Mark Twain

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

—George Dorsey

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

—Joseph Chilton Pearce

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

—H.G. Wells

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

—Leo Buscaglia

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

—Plato

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

 — Michael Jordan

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

—Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

—Charles Schaefer

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

—George Bernard Shaw