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

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

We're more than just our job titles or our list of professional accomplishments.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

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.