A recent survey from the Pew Research Center, reported by USA Today, gives insight into the current view of marriage. According to the survey of approximately 2,700 people, 39 percent said marriage is becoming obsolete.

The eminently quotable G.K. Chesterton had good insights on the subject of money.

Unfortunately Edwin Booth is known primarily as the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Booth was a celebrated Shakespearean actor.

Sir Ernest Shackleton became a folk hero because of his expeditions to Antarctica. He once described his journeys this way:

Wayne Dyer, motivational speaker and writer, likes to tell an ancient story about a woman who finds a valuable stone in a river. She places the stone in a bag. Later a traveler comes to the woman and asks for something to eat. While she is reaching in the bag for a crust of bread, the traveler sees the valuable stone. He asks her to give him the stone. She readily does so and throws in some bread, as well.

Randall Richardson decided to change his ways radically. He never had been an affectionate person, so his 2010 New Year's resolution was to hug 1,000 people.

The inimitable Dr. Seuss in his book, I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sellew, wrote these simple words that can give us courage:

Cavett Robert used to tell of the time he met Will Rogers.

An American visiting churches in Hungary worshipped one Sunday in a little house church near Budapest.

In Johnstown, Pa., a tool-supply company received in the mail a $45 check to pay for a stolen hammer.