Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.