Psychology

The real questions are: Am I getting better as a person? And is what I'm doing bringing me and the ones around me happiness?

Whether you think the world is out to hurt you or help you — you're right.

If you can get curious about what scares or infuriates you, especially if it's part of yourself, you can get way less scared.

Most adults are pretending. Status, intelligence, beauty, wealth, achievement. The older you get, the more you see people pretending in little ways all the time.

On the air I am capable of asking anybody anything. But take away the mic and I can become uncomfortable, self-conscious, and insecure.

Self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel and my hope is today that we can all collectively agree to ban it.

The person under 25 is less a rough draft than a finely honed instrument, tailor-made for one of life's greatest periods of challenge and change.

Be proud of this new generation. They aren't like you, but they are what America now needs.

A generation is not 'youth.' Youth is just an age bracket. It's like an empty hotel room that different generations move into — with their own baggage — and then soon leave. Sometimes that room swells with sweet music, sometimes it throbs with death metal, sometimes it's utterly silent. But it's never the same.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Fear is the most corrosive force in human life. It deforms us and crushes the best in us.

The measure of success is what you think about what you've done. Not the doing well, nor the failure — but what you think about it.