“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it.” – Mark Twain

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Rely not on the teacher, but on the teaching. Rely not on the words of the teaching, but on the spirit of the words. Rely not on theory, but on experience. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
– the Buddha

“We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”
– T. S. Elliot

“Remember, genius is more often found in a cracked pot, than in a whole one.”
– E.B. White

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
– Sydney J. Harris

The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
– Elbert Hubbard