Quotes

We all know that I am not a big fan of surprises, and for whatever reason my life seems to be full of them.

I welcome life's challenges and will do my best to rise to the occasion every time.

In life, some things don't always work out the way you plan them.

I live a very balanced life. I am very good at delegating responsibilities.

I always start my day with two things that really ground me. One is a book of daily inspirational readings called 'The Book of Awakening.' Basically, it talks about having the life you want and being present in the life you have. I also write three things I'm grateful for in a gratitude journal.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was big for us. Even bigger was the night before, when they would blow up the balloons. Every year, I'd make a thermos of hot chocolate and we'd walk with the kids. It was just so much fun to see Snoopy come to life in the street.

Mastering tools and strategies to flourish emotionally provides a solid foundation that can last a lifetime.

From physical health to academic and professional success, how someone feels has a tremendous impact on many key aspects of his or her life.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Spending some time learning how to be there - in-person or virtually - for your loved ones can be a life-saving gift.

A lot of people talk about their work life, and then their family life, and I don't think it's wise to separate them. It's important to be your authentic self in both of those environments.

Few events in modern life are more viewed or more talked about than the Super Bowl halftime show.

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

We seek to protect and preserve life for life's own sake in everything from our most fundamental laws of homicide to our road traffic regulations to our largest governmental programs for health and social security.