The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

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.

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

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.

European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn’t do when you started.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy.

Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.

Try to be better than yourself.