Brian Sutton-Smith

Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.