You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore

It is only in playing that the individual is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. Donald Winnicott

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. Nita Leland

We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. Author Unknown

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique. Stephen Nachmanovich

All the genuine, deep delight of life is in showing people the mud-pies you have made; and life is at its best when we confidingly recommend our mud-pies to each other's sympathetic consideration. A. M. Thornburn