Must being in love always mean being in pain?

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.