While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability.

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.