Some years ago, there was a cartoon that pictured a psychologist talking to a mother.

One child said to another, "I'm really worried. My mom works all day, comes home to make us supper, then she cleans the house and washes the clothes."

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

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.

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.