At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.
If I have children, I am never going to read them stories about finding Prince Charming because they will grow up feeling disappointed.
This is in the plan which I have for my career and my life, to one day win the Champions League and the World Cup.
I couldn't imagine living in retirement and seeing your nest egg drop by more than a third.
Conservative is the new counter culture, and I consider myself to be a member of the counter culture.
Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.
With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.