As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

I have trashed the to-do list. To help my brain...

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.

Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].