"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

The ability to focus attention is crucial for learning, memory, and performance in complex tasks.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of the printing press.

The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure.It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

"Memory is a tricky thing; it can be both a blessing and a curse."

Fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.