Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed and how he will dispose of its products.

137 years later Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them but as I wrote my own I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have and take for granted: hot showers enough food friends routines.

If you have acid in food you need to sugar it. At a high temperature the acids are changed to sugar.

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself 'Hey am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.