Neil Howe

Be proud of this new generation. They aren't like you, but they are what America now needs.

A generation is not 'youth.' Youth is just an age bracket. It's like an empty hotel room that different generations move into — with their own baggage — and then soon leave. Sometimes that room swells with sweet music, sometimes it throbs with death metal, sometimes it's utterly silent. But it's never the same.

No one knows what challenges this Millennial Generation may eventually be asked to bear. Hardly anyone expects them to become America's next greatest generation. But someday you can say you heard it from me: that is their destiny.