The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

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.

Doubtful heart weakens mind.

Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain

Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.