When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

Geography is about maps But biography is about chaps.

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.