In both children and adults there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Believe me you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

My mother whom I love dearly has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce step-children dysfunction and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

If you're under 26 you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.

The average healthy well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health slow your mind make you fat - in other words turn you into an adult.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.