Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.