We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow. "
I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.
The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained. . . Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.
Just because you lose doesn't mean you're a loser, and champions don't quit.
If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.