On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

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.

Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind.

Sometimes my helpless blood runs numb and, if only for a second, I forget how frail bones can be.

Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.