Zitat des Tages von Nancy Gibbs:
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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.
In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
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.
Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
A president can't go to every memorial service.
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.