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.

Don't miss the moment. It's all we have

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

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?'

The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.