I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.

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

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.

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.

It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.