The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

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.

That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.