“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” – Carl Jung

“When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.” – Fred Rogers

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”- Henri Matisse

“Play is hard to maintain as you get older. You get less playful. You shouldn’t, of course.” – Richard Feynman

“As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.” – Gretchen Owocki