Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

I stole their future from them

The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most.

All good things that happen today are a part of golden memories in future.

Labels are for cans, not people.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

What if the house catches fire?” “Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you’ll go down with the ship. If there’s a tornado, I’ll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.