Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I defend myself by improving myself.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.