We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

Honey, when you say we can't communicate... what exactly do you mean?

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.