To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

I always love China, especially the old China.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.

I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.