There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

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.

Moses is our true founding father.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.