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The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.

There is no substitute for experience

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"