Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.

One must be cold if one wishes to savor chaos.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.