I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Creating the Minerva Awards. I really have enjoyed that. I have to say that I moaned and groaned about this job but the way I have it now, I enjoy everything about it... I enjoy giving people service opportunities.

You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.