What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.

People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

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

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.