Bruce Feiler

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. ”

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. ”

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet. ”

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome. ”

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. ”

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith. ”

Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him. ”

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection. ”

Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge. ”

Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are. ”