Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

A Facebook message will never be able to replace face-to-face interaction.

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.