“There is no room for play in Islam … It is deadly serious about everything.”

“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.”

“[As a painting teacher] I'm not flirting, playing around. I'm serious about it... If you don't want to be serious about playing [at art], do something of no account. Go into banking. Buy collar buttons at five cents a dozen and sell them for five cents a piece.”

“Serious art is born from serious play.”

“People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.”

“Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.”

“Creative work is serious play.”

“When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game.”

“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

“It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.”