Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.