Balance

If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.

A new vision of the American dream that says achieving balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

We push ourselves through the week to get to the weekend. We have become 2/7ths people, only really living 2 days out of the 7 in a week. Things can be different. We can become 7/7ths people. And thereby become whole.

You don't need so much stuff to fill your life when you have people in it.

Find ways to make work seem like play, or perhaps make play into something that you get paid to do.

A rich life is a balanced life. Don't focus too early on your career. Deviate a bit. Embrace change.

There is one place you should not fail. That's with your family and your children.

Most people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Delaying happiness along with gratification is quite another thing, because each milestone along your path ought to have its own form of happiness.

Between chutzpah and humility lies success. The biggest killer of a good mind is to stick it in a fat head.

Make choices that will make you happy for a long time, rather than just focusing on the next two seconds.

With hard work you can achieve great goals, but also know that there's more to life than just your career. If all you ever do is work, you will regret it.

Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.