Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

We're in this together usually means I'm here for you, unless it requires me getting into my car anywhere near rush hour.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.

I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.