The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

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.

If you are not serving the Lord, start serving Him, so that you will be a partaker of His blessings

...there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It’s the only measure of human value.

The people that surround us mirror who we are.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.