Playtime, Self, Virtue

Today's young children are controlled by the expectations, schedules,
whims, and rules of adults. Play is the only time they can take
control of their world.
~ Sheila G. Flaxman

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one
cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not
to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly
to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that
virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and
every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my
teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a
mischievous person.
~ Socrates

Stress reduction, Decorating, Experience

Playing reduces stress, improves life, and increases creativity. Who
doesn't want that?
~ Stevanne Auerbach, Dr. Toy

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of
people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough
bookshelves.
~ Anna Quindlen

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get
if you don't.
~ Pete Seeger

Ideas, Intelligent life, Misquotation

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air;
transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent
with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
~ Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
~ Bill Watterson

I improve on misquotation.
~ Cary Grant