A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: “I’m right

Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

God never gives us anything to do that He does not give us the strength to do.

Sometimes in life, there are no second chances

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.