"Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat."

"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."

"Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed."

"The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't."

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

"The paradox of freedom is that the only true currency in life is time well spent."