Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor;… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
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… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
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… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share
