You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.