My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

it is horrible being all alone.

Your minute is your hour is your day is your week is your month is your year. If you want to make this year better, make each minute better.

Faith sees the invisible believes the incredible and receives the impossible.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

I was very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved.

The strenuous life tastes better