Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….

Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.