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.

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.

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.

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

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

Food allergy is one of the least diagnosed and most prevalent causes of symptoms, especially depression.

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.