Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

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.

Creativity flourishes in solitude.

...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

I like to be comfortable but I also like to look put together all the time.

People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)