After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

It seems there are some problems even Prosecco and cake can't make better.

A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.