I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

Where we are is vital to who we are.

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.