Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Different languages cut the world into different slices.

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

In life, I have learnt that the more I learnt about life, the sadder I became and the sadder I became the desire to learn about life increased.

Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heart.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

The soul...is audible, not visible.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

Rock n roll is about drugs.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

You know I'm a firm believer that women come in all shapes and all sizes and you know certain people like certain things. It's all good, whether it's big, small, whatever.