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" Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking. "

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" Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind. "

" When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable. "

" There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant. "

" The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. "

" After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter. "

" There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. "

" Time is valuable; people are busy. "

" All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. "

" A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights. "

" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "

" In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school. "

" Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat. "

" Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids. "

" Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie. "

" I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over. "

" It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. "

" Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. "

" Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger. "

" Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. "

" Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships. "

" We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. "

" Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis. "

" Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating. "

" We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers. "

" A president can't go to every memorial service. "

" Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. "

" 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. "

" Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. "

" The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. "