A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.

As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

We called ourselves Mumford & Sons because we liked the idea of an old-fashioned, family-owned store.

There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.