“ Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. ”

“ The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well. ”

“ Our children will outwit us if they want for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. ”

“ Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes. ”

“ Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well. ”

“ It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. ”

“ The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs. ”

“ Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. ”

“ After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. ”

“ High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. ”