America is a country ready to be taken—in fact, longing to be taken—by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political proces… - Arianna Huffington

Montaigne: “To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.” Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.

Don't forget: our media culture failed to serve the public interest by missing (with a few honourable exceptions) the two biggest stories of our time: the run-up to the Iraq war and the financial melt­down. We've had far too many autopsies and not enough biopsies.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — WILLIAM JAMES