Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

A book is a treasure of life.

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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Of all challenges, convincing dumb ones is the most difficult. Manipulation works better in such cases if your heart allows.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.

We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.

Fear is the friction in all transitions.