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

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

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.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

A life of devotion to one's passion gives meaning to life.

Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.

Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can’t flush.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.