We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.