I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.