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.

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.

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.

We pray God would do it our way

You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.