A country like Belgium or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States which is a really puzzling thought.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering perpetuating and transmitting thought.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts in speech or on paper some style.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

When I walk up on that shore in Florida I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late I can still live my dreams.'

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well I never thought I'd work.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives little stories. I thought 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me who came from nowhere.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted but she still had her dreams.

Well my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me as well as being a real place it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache and Australia has that as well.

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals and dream such dreams of lofty purpose that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States I realised how much I loved being back in the States.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle or to put up with things to reach for those impossible dreams all those dramatic things.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

The human heart has hidden treasures In secret kept in silence sealed The thoughts the hopes the dreams the pleasures Whose charms were broken if revealed.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it or they were too cautious and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

I was always a dreamer in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult being on the road so much but it's been far easier than I thought.

At one point I even thought 'Oh I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful and I would never ever recommend it.

I thought you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle but if you don't move if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.