If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).

In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.