Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance.

People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.