If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.