Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.

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

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions