The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
Adults interfere with a natural biologic development of the child's motor, visual, mental, and artistic abilities when they try to influence the child's work in the early years. The adult's brain has accumulated much more visual and artistic memory than the child's, so there can be no true meeting of adult and child mind unless the adult knows how the child's mind functions in art.
We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.