Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too. -Bruce Feiler History
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. -Bruce Feiler Courage
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants. -Bruce Feiler Freedom
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt. -Bruce Feiler Positive
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. -Bruce Feiler Religion
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day. -Bruce Feiler History
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. -Bruce Feiler Parenting
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. -Bruce Feiler Faith
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. -Bruce Feiler Positive
