"The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing."

“I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!”

“To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.”

“The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.”

Source : "On The Little Black Dress" by Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

“...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.”

“Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter.”

“Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.”

Source : Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, Ecco

“I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.”