The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Sometimes the magic of life is beyond thought. It's the sparkle of intuition, of bringing your own personal energy into your music.

You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.

Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

A child is the root of the heart.

I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me.

I feel amazing. In my life right now, I have so much motivation. I am so hungry and so determined... I am young, I am healthy and I feel great - 42 is the new 32.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.