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

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition – plowing straight ahead, come what may.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

I play every game like it’s my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

It’s all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don’t hurt anybody. Feel good about what you’re doing and how you’re doing it.

I play to all people – all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

How can we embrace rest and play if we’ve tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.

Sometimes you’re looking to play perfect tennis but it’s not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that’s just fascinating.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don’t hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people’s cards.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically – and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I’ve dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

When I’m frustrated that I’m not doing well in a tournament I cut my own hair, just lop it all off. I’ve probably made a right mess of it, but luckily I wear a cap when I play.

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

I believe in my heart I’m the best player in the world. I’m just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I’m just confident in my ability to play ball.

The games we have the ability to play in our minds amaze me.

Ever since I stopped worrying about finances, I’ve made more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created…that a cat should play with mice.

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature – of which spirit is a part – need fear no premature decline.

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach…Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

Well, I don’t play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.