What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.

To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?