People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

How much of your time, at your “hourly rate, ” is wasted each year because you’re cleaning up after your employees and fixing issues they’ve created or haven’t resolved themselves?

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.

An empty street sucks your fullness

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.