The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13 Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high you do have the potential to get to that level.

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.