A culture that gives young people less freedom and more comparison teaches them to mistake achievement for worth.

Building something great is hard enough. Staying great when the world inevitably changes is another race entirely.

Power becomes dangerous when people start believing their own judgement is a higher law.

To commit our time to one thing is to make it unavailable to everything else.

Once we begin removing difficult words and images from public view, we also begin deciding what others are allowed to understand.

A society without doubt can quickly become a prison, and a mind without doubt can become its own smaller version of one.

If you leave something behind, you gain something too.

Recovery promises a return to normal. But the person returning is often not quite the person who left.

When life has other plans: a reflection on open-heart surgery, the recovery, and the people who helped me through it.