Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas.
Toys are us. We are the toys of our parents, we are the toys of our nation, we are the toys of our environment, we are the toys of ourselves.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning.
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Toys have taken over my family room. I watch Mary Poppins and look at the floating toys and I'm a floating toy.
I think I can beat U.S. gold medalist Chloe Kim at snowboarding... in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.