For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Being away from something, gives you a clear vision about it

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.

I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

If you are doing nothing, God doesn't need to give you any help in doing nothing. Go out and do something impossible for Jesus, and then God will help you.