Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand...

I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is s...

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institu...

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry i...

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to...

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, ov...

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the t...

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills,...

Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it...

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at...

My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribu...

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappe...