Literature overtakes history for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

Performing is a profound experience at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story it just takes experience.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience so as much as someone can tell you things you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Mistakes are painful when they happen but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

I think an education is beneficial but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

You know nothing is more important than education because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

My career was full of struggles and dreams disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

I'm sure I have a process but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

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.

But what I was going to say was I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams say it as Thoreau would say and just see where it takes me.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination dedication self-discipline and effort.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat determination and hard work.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat they are as fattening as animal fats.

The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.