The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

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.

Hope does not leave without being given permission.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you're in and live your life to the fullest.

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

I feel like a real cowboy! Yippi Ki Yay!

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.