Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

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.

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

Today I found an old friend.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it