(I don't normally include little blurbs like this at the Reading Room, but this one was quoted by some public figure recently, and I think it bears repeating...)
"I call people successful not because they have money or their business is doing well, but because they have a fully developed sense of being alive and engaged in a lifetime collaboration with other human beings - their mothers and fathers, their family, their friends, their loved ones, the friends who are dying, the friends who are being born. Success? Don't you know it is all about being able to extend love to people? Really. Not in a big capital letter sense, but in the everyday - little by little, gesture by gesture, word by word."
EL STEPHO